Pursues a rhetoric of visual fragments by considering the disjunctive packaging of two particular fictional films: Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic "Vertigo" and Christopher Reeve's 1997 adaptation of Alice Elliott Dark's short story, "In the Gloaming." Considers how "Vertigo" offers conflicting stories about the possibility of technologically resurrecting the past. Notes that contrasts between the film and its adjacent documentary segments point to tension between current civil rights agendas. (SG)